Shopping for watches on Goodwill can lead to wildly varied results. Sometimes you walk away with a vintage Jaeger-LeCoultre dive watch for $5.99; sometimes you nab a mystery box of mostly junk timepieces for $359. And sometimes, exceptionally rare watches sell through the secondhand organization for precisely what they’re worth.
During an online Goodwill auction last week, a “Longines watch for repair 0.25 lb” quietly sold for $88,197.70. Why the princely sum? The pictures didn’t…

